1. What you’ll need to know for Freshman DGP
DGP Notes
What you’ll need to know for Freshman DGP

2. Parts of Speech - Nouns Person, place, thing or idea
Common (n): names a general noun; begins with a lower case letter.
Proper (N): names a specific noun; begins with a capital letter.
Possessive (pos n, pos N): shows ownership (girl’s)

3. Pronouns Takes the place of a noun
Personal (1st person; pronouns having to do with “me”; 2nd person: pronouns having to do with “you”; 3rd person: pronouns having to do with everyone else)
Singular nominative (nom) I, you, he, she, it
Plural nominative (nom): we, you, they
Singular objective (obj): me, you, him, her, it
Plural objective (obj): us, you, them
Singular possessive (pos): my, your, his, her, its, mine, yours
Plural possessive (pos): our, your, their, ours, yours, theirs

4. Pronouns Reflexive (ref): reflects back to “self”
Myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves
Not words: hisself, ourself, theirselves

5. Pronouns
Relative (rp): starts adj. dependent clause (that, which, who, whom, whose)
Interrogative (int): asks a question (which? Whose? What? Whom? Who?)
Demonstrative (dem): demonstrates which one (this, that, these, those)
Indefinite (ind): doesn’t refer to a definite person or thing (each, either, neither, few, some, all, most, several, few, many, none, one, someone, no one, everyone, anyone, somebody, nobody, everybody, etc.)

6. Adjectives
(adj): modifies nouns (I have a green pen) and pronouns (They are happy.)
Tells which one? How many? What kind?
Articles (art): a, an, the
Proper adjective (Adj): proper noun used as an adjective (American flag)

7. Adverb
Adv: modifies adjectives (really cute), verbs (extremely fast), and other adverbs (very easily)
Tells How? When? Where? To what extent?
“not” and “never” are always adverbs.

8. Preposition
Prep: shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and some other word in the sentence.
Across, after, around, at, before, behind, below, beside, etc.
We went to school. We went up the stairs.

9. Conjunction Join words, phrases and clauses
Coordinating (cc) FANBOYS (for, and nor, but, or, yet, so)
Subordinating (sc) starts adv. Dependent clauses (and therefore must be followed by a subject and verb) after, since, before, etc.
Correlative (cor conj) not only/but also, neither/nor, either/or, both/and
Noun clause identifier (nci) starts noun dependent clauses – may or may not function as part of the noun dependent clause – that, who, whether, etc.
Conjunctive adverb (conj adv) adverb that helps connect two clauses – must be used with a semicolon (It is cold; however, it is not snowing.) – however, then, therefore, etc.

10. Interjection
(int) expresses emotion but has no real connection with the rest of the sentence
Set apart from the sentence by a comma or exclamation point
No, I’m not finished with my homework. Wow! What a great new car.

11. Verb Shows action or helps to make a statement.
Action (av) shows action – She wrote a note.
Linking (lv) links two words together – can be linking: is, be, am, etc. – English is fun. (English = fun) – The flower smells pretty. (flower = pretty)
Helping (hv) “helps” an action verb or linking verb – If a verb phrase has four verbs, the first three are helping. If it has three verbs, the first two are helping. And so on. – can be helping: is, be, am, etc. – We have been taking notes all day. (“taking” is action) – She will be cold without a jacket. (“be” is linking)

12. Verb tenses Present (pres): happening now (jump, talk, eat)
Past (past): happened previously (jumped)
Future (f): will happen in the future (will jump)
Present perfect (pres per): “have” or “has” plus past participle (have jumped)
Past perfect (past per): “had” plus past participle (had jumped)
Future perfect (f per): “will have” or “shall have” plus past participle (will have jumped)

13. Verb tenses, cont.
Present progressive (pres prog): is, are, am plus present participle (am jumping)
Past progressive (past prog): was, were plus present participle (was jumping)
Future progressive (f prog): will be, shall be plus present participle (will be jumping)
Present perfect progressive (pres per prog): have, has, plus “been” plus present participle (have been jumping)

14. Verb tenses cont.
Past perfect progressive (past per prog): “had” plus “been” plus present participle (had been jumping)
Future perfect progressive (f per prog): “will have” or “shall have” plus “been” plus present participle (will have been jumping

15. Verbal
Gerund (ger): verb acting like a noun – ends in “ing” – Reading is fun. (subject) – I enjoy shopping (direct object) – Use pencils for drawing. (object of prep)
Participle (part): verb acting like an adjective – ends in “ing” or “ed” (or other past tense ending) – I have running shoes. Frightened, I ran down the street. It’s an unspoken rule.
Infinitive (inf): to plus verb – can act like a noun (I like to eat.), adjective (It’s the best place to eat.), or adverb (I need a pen to write a letter.)